he used the money to enrich himself and finance his political campaigns. gabriel elizondo has this update from you. it's rare that you see a former president or head of state being drugged to the united states in handcuffs and facing justice. and that's exactly what we saw here on friday. hernandez, 1st appearance here in federal court was via video link because of covert restrictions. it only lasted about 15 minutes or so, and he appeared on the video link and he only said a few words. yes, your honor in spanish a few times when he was asked if he understood what was being said to him. it was a pretty quick appearance where the, basically the charges against him by the government were laid out charges of drug trafficking and conspiracy. u. s. government said that he was a, accuses him of being a major drug trafficker for well over a decade in honduras up in till even this year when he was arrested in honduras in february. our the arraignment will be scheduled for next month. but the bottom line is that this was his 1st court appearance now. and now we'll get to hear more as this case goe

as board, unanimously approved of $44000000000.00 deal to sell the company al jazeera gabriel elizondo reports. now from new york, the deal is done the month long saga of who will own twitter appears over. in one of the largest and most unusual tech acquisitions ever. the board of directors and twitter unanimously agreed to sell the social media company to even musk for $44000000000.00. up until the deal was announced, there was doubt on wall street. that musk could cobble together the financing needed, but he did. must help pay for the deal with $25500000000.00 in debt financing by a group of banks lead by morgan stanley. in a press release announcing the deal must talked about improving the platform by getting rid of automated spam accounts and making its algorithms open to the public and authenticating all users. but for musk buying twitter is about free speech, or at least his version of it potentially ending twitters current content, moderation, or stopping the platforming of users to break the rules. you are mosque is not buying twitter or financial reasons, although he thinks he

drops about 2 percent on thursday, a fine investors have mixed feelings about muskets plans. gabriel elizondo has more from the new york stock exchange here, 81000000 followers. he tweets a lot, he uses twitter very aggressively. and as we all know, of course, and he's claiming that he wants to buy it because he thinks it needs fixing. and in his words, only, he can fix it. and he said he's got the plan to do it. and but what he's saying though, is he spoke to at a tech's event in vancouver, canada a few hours ago. and he said why he doesn't want to buy twitter, and that's because he said it's not financial. he doesn't expect to make a lot of money off of it. he says he's doing it because a free speech. and he doesn't think that twitter is the right platform for free speech. he said that twitter restricts free speech in his view and says he's doing this for the good of humanity. this really is an issue here of the future direction of twitter. because as we know, twitter very much is not afraid to de platform or restrict the account or delete the account of people that they think are promoting

appeared to the ted talk in vancouver canada way was asked about is attempt to take over twitter. gabriel elizondo house more from the new york stock exchange. this is the 1st public comments by ellen musk about this. and he did not give a lot of specifics. his overarching theme was when asked why he wanted to buy twitter, why he wanted to own it. he basically said twitter has become the world's de facto towns square. and that he said he wants to buy it because he feels that free speech is very important. anything twitter plays a key role in that. when asked if he has secured funding to buy twitter idle cost about over $40000000000.00. specifics, if you will, everyone knows he's got enough money, but what people want to know is does he have other investors with him? what about that? any more details of how he's plans to buy to buy it? he said simply, he's got the resources but want didn't want to go into any more details and then asked if he has a plan b. if twitter rejects his takeover bed, he said yes, i do have a plan b, but i don't wish to devote divulge what it is. so clearly eli musk being a

the stolen fortune is linked to malaysia sovereign welfare known as one m d b. gabriel elizondo reports from the bribery and corruption trial and new york. a key player, one of the world's biggest international money laundering, and bribery schemes found guilty. roger ng, a former managing director at goldman sachs, now a convicted fraudster and money launder. the jury's verdict came after a 7 week trial in a u. s. federal court. prosecutors allege ng while working for goldman sachs received more than $30000000.00 in kickbacks in a larger scheme to steal billions of dollars for malicious sovereign wealth fund known as one m d b. today's verdict is a victory for not only the rule of law, but also for the people of malaysia, for whom the fun was supposed to help. by raising money for projects to develop their country's economy. goldman sachs under wrote $6400000000.00 worth of bonds for the fund. the bank made 600000000 in fees out of it. ang was accused of helping divert more than $4000000000.00 from the fund to malaysian government officials and others through bribes for future business

really interesting to see how this situation develops. gabriel elizondo that for us a new york f. b. i. agents a questioning a suspected gunman in connection with the subway shooting in new york. 62, frank james faces federal terrorism charges. the motive of tuesdays rush hour attack remains unclear. gabriel is under again. ah, with a calmness completely at odds with the alleged crime he committed. the most wanted man in new york is arrested on the streets of manhattan. 62 year old frank james had been on the run barely 30 hours after he became the chief suspect in the shooting of 10 people at a brooklyn subway station on tuesday morning. during rush hour, less than an hour after his arrest, the new york police department announced the news, eager to call the public shocked by the violence. we use every resource at our disposal to gather in process significant evidence that directly linked mister james to the shooting. we were able to shrink his world quickly. there was no, we're left for him to run. yesterday was a dark day for all of us. but the bright spots of the incredible he

gabriel? a lot elizondo is live in new york, new york stock exchange, sher firstly, of course, i mean 44000000000 dollars. this is despite it must being according to forbes, the richest man of the planet. no small sum. is it? yeah, it's not even for he, long mosque was reportedly worth 4 times that he would have had a hard time. just simply writing a check for $44000000000.00, and that's why he had to sort of over the last week cobbled together some financing for this. i won't get into all the dirty details if you will, how he did that. but essentially you got about 25000000000 from various banks, led by morgan stanley, and then he's kicking in about another 21000000000 and equity added all up and he was able to put a package together. and that's ultimately what the twitter board decided to agree upon. once they saw that he was able to get this money and by twitter for the price, he was offering it to 44000000000. the price that he offered to pay for the board essentially said yes, but it is a lot of money and it's interesting to see where the company goes. now from here, stock price increased by